Beschrijving
Many years after the guest has eaten them, a host demands an enormous sum for twelve boiled eggs, claiming that by this time they have hatched out chickens who have in turn laid eggs, etc. The devil as advocate comes in and demands that the host cook his peas for planting [J1191.2]. »Boiled peas may grow as soon as chickens can be hatched from boiled eggs.» The devil carries off the judge.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*BP II 368 n. 1
*Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 807.